Spin a Dark Web

Soho Incident

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There’s an evening street scene in Vernon Sewell’s Soho Incident (US: Spin a Dark Web) in which boxer Jim Bankley (Lee Patterson) passes a theater marquee promoting This is Cinerama, a milestone 1952 documentary film that debuted a new widescreen format intended to help jolt Hollywood out of its economic doldrums. Like Cinerama, Bella Francesci (Faith Domergue) is a shiny new toy whose sober beauty attracts Bankley into not only her own web but that of her Sicilian gangster brother Rico (Martin Benson). Bankley is soon trapped in a murder plot and can’t get out of it as Bella takes a dive in the crazy pool. The film is uneven in terms of performances and the script (“You don’t leave me! Nobody leaves me!”), but its story, despite a lack of originality, will entertain most noir fans. Rona Anderson is on hand as Bankley’s good-girl companion Betty, who waits patiently for his criminal escapade to run its course.

By Michael Bayer

Vernon Sewell
M. J. Frankovich, George Maynard
Ian Stuart Black
Robert Westerby (novel)
Basil Emmott
Robert Sharples
Ken Adam
Peter Rolfe Johnson
Lee Patterson, Faith Domergue, Martin Benson, Rona Anderson, Robert Arden, Joss Ambler, Peter Hammond, Peter Burton
Spin a Dark Web, 1956
Bella Francesci (Faith Domergue) entices Jim Bankley (Lee Patterson) into a life of crime.
Bankley finds himself stuck.

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